Media
Term/Meanings:
1. Meaning of term
media in my Mother tongue:
(Usually used with a plural verb) the means ofcommunication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely.
3. My own
definition of ‘Media’: Media is a method that could help the people to obtain
the information. For example, newspaper, internet, social networking websites,
ECT.
Articles related to media:
Article:
8 August 2012 Last updated
at 11:57 GMT
Tia Sharp:
Hundreds search for missing Croydon girl
A poster made
by Karon March is part of the community effort
About 200 people - some from as far as
Wales - turned up to help in the hunt for missing south London girl Tia Sharp.
Tia, 12, disappeared after leaving
her grandmother's home in Croydon, to go shopping at about midday on Friday.
Earlier, a police dog was taken into
the house at the Lindens, New Addington, where she was last seen.
Police dog handlers will also conduct
a search of the area and alleyway behind the house.
Det Ch Insp Nick Scola also visited
the home and met members of the family.
He said: "This morning I have
been in to see the family and update them with details of the
investigation."
'Frantic'
search
Meanwhile people gathered at Croydon
Rugby Club on Tuesday to search nearby woodland.
Club secretary Sue Randall said:
"People are coming from everywhere, from Swanley, even a couple from Wales
because they thought they might be able to help and wanted to be involved.
"It's worrying. I've got four
children and five grandchildren and I would be frantic if they went
missing."
Candles have
been left at a bus stop close to Tia's grandmother's house
She added volunteers were being
accompanied by police officers in searches to avoid "contaminating
evidence".
Earlier, police began searching the
local wood, Birchwood, less than a mile from Tia's grandmother Christine
Sharp's home in New Addington.
Alex Benham, of the rugby club, said
several social networking pages had been set up appealing for information,
adding: "It has been a real community thing."
One woman has posted a message
saying: "I printed 2,000 flyers at work last night."
A poster created by Karon March, a
supermarket worker, has been displayed alongside official police flyers.
Her husband, Steven March, said:
"We've been standing in the middle of roads handing leaflets to drivers
and going door-to-door.
"The community's really pulling
together."
Gavin Barwell, the Conservative MP
for Croydon Central praised the community, saying the response from people had been
"absolutely magnificent".
Meanwhile The Sun newspaper has
offered a £25,000 reward for information that will help police find Tia.
'Good as
gold'
On Tuesday Tia's stepfather said the family
was "in bits" and urged people to find "my little girl".
David Niles, 29, said Tia's mother
Natalie was distraught and he had not slept for four days.
Wearing a T-shirt bearing Tia's
image, Mr. Niles said: "I just want to find my little girl.
"We're in bits; the whole
country has helped us and is supporting us.
Tia Sharp was
captured on CCTV on Thursday, the day before she vanished
"I haven't slept in four days.
Natalie (Tia's mother) is in bits."
He said he last saw Tia on Thursday
morning at the family home in Mitcham before he headed to work.
"She was good as gold," Mr.
Niles said.
"I know I am not her real dad,
but I have been there since day dot.
"When she left the house she
shouted: 'Bye' and 'see you by six'."
Tia's grandmother said she was
pinning her hopes on new CCTV stills of Tia taken outside the Co-op in
Featherbed Lane near her house at about 16:15 BST on the day before she went
missing.
Police have scoured hours of CCTV
footage but have not found any trace of Tia, who has never gone missing before.
She had been on her way to the
Whitgift shopping centre, in Croydon, when she went missing.
Officers are particularly keen to
hear from anyone in the Lindens area of New Addington who has information and
appealed for any bus or tram drivers in the Croydon area who recognize Tia's
description to contact them.
She is known to frequent the Croydon,
Mitcham and Wimbledon areas.
Tia is described as white, 4ft 5in
tall and slim, and was wearing FCUK glasses.
My opinion about the article:
In
my opinion, parents of the lost girl, is putting a great amount of effort in
order to find and get her dear daughter back. From this article, I could
observe that the parent has used wide range of media to spread the idea and
request for help to get their child back, such as poster, t-shirt publications
as well as the social networking websites. However, I think it would much
effective if they had widen their range of use of their media, such as adding
the method like announcing in the radio channels, magazines or even newspaper
advertisement. By this way, they would be able to announce it widely, to obtain
more number of people, helping to search the daughter, in a wider range of
places, which would greatly help them to find back their daughter in no time.
Also, I hope that the police would also use the media, especially social
networking sites, to hopefully inspect the relationships between Tia and her
social networking friends, by observing the sites.
How would media affect me?
I think
that wide range of media could greatly affect my life because, I am still in
the age of teenager, and so I would use many social networking websites, such
as Facebook and tweeter. To talk about the social networking, the cyber
bullying has invented, which they bully people or make them feel alone, by
using computers, usually online through the use of internet. This is majorly
done through the use of the social networking websites such as Facebook. Those
methods of use of media would make me feel alone, if I was the one who were
affected. I also think that published type of the media especially books, and
printed materials would also greatly help affect myself, because, it could give
knowledge, and also help them to learn something use them outside the school. Multimedia,
which is one of the popular types of media, containing videos and music would
also affect the society greatly, because it would also spread the ideas and
awareness in an interactive way, to make people easy to understand. For
example, in the social studies class had a look at the video, describing about
the disadvantages of Joseph Kony. This helped me to obtain more about Joseph Kony,
how the children have been left out and abused as well as how to government as
well as the whole world would contribute in order to find Joseph Kony out. Also
through the multimedia, I obtained an idea of why Joseph Kony was a bad person
and what he did.
